Date and Activity

 

Saturday Mach 6, 2010 - Scrapbooking 9am to 9pm

March 9, 2010 - Next Area Team Meeting

June 28, 2010 - Departure Day

EAST METRO AREA TEAM MINUTES

November 10, 2009

 

At the meeting were Anne, Paulette, Sue Davis, Nina, Ed and Diane Bratvold, Tom, Andrew, Linda, and Bob.

We welcomed guest, Edd Trettel, Tom’s new assistant for hosting.

Treasurer report: Linda reported that we have $2883.00 in our account. We need to pay for the midyear orientation and other bills that came. We will also be putting money down on the site for the fall orientation.

New t-shirts are in. Two nice designs.

Hosting: Tom will be going to the hosting conference in early December. The deadline for finding host families for the semester arrivals is December 15. Tom is going to check with Stillwater and Paulette is going to try to find a host family if a position is available in the school.

No sending report.

Support: Anne reported that the biggest problem right now is the natural families having too many contacts with their child thus interfering with adjustment to US culture. We need a host family in North St. Paul if anyone has any ideas.

No orientations report:

Sponsored Programs: Feed my starving children volunteer opportunity is Thursday, November 19, 2009. Plans are complete. There has been interest from exchange students in the Minnesota International Center presentations program. Students signed up and took an orientation at fall orientation. They were to communicate with host family about their commitment. Students did not do a good job of telling host families. Bob is working on that.

Returnee updates: No report. We talked about the difficulties have in getting involved and what they can do. They can’t drive students or become liaisons. They can volunteer at orientations and activities.

Events: Linda and Julie took a group to Taylors Falls for hiking and a picnic. Scrapbooking is November 14, 4:30 to 9 p.m. at the conference room. More kids have signed up this time. Linda is planning scrapbooking on December 5, a cookie baking session on December 6, and a potluck on December 7. Talk to Linda for more details.

Christmas party, December 12, invitations to come out soon.

Halloween party recap: We talked about a family rate and that parents could volunteer. That probably should be added to invitation. We had a family from farther away decide not to come because they thought all would have to pay and cost would be prohibitive. Volunteer parents would be encouraged to help with clean up at end. Also, if you volunteer for setup, be there on time at the start.

Work teams: The support team is working well.

            Tom is getting his team together.

            Sending, Orientations, and Returnees have not responded. That is a way to add volunteers and will make your job easier.

 

Next meeting: December 8, 2009 at Linda’s other conference room.

Arrival Orientation